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Ive used Earlpilanz a couple of times. He's great, send him your original plate and he'll copy it. His Dark Red and Vintage Dark Torts are delicious. [email protected]

Absolutely, but ive a couple of Spectors too (Euro 4 and 5) but if the need ever arose, I could happily gig the two squires. Mind you I now have Gas for a 90s Stingray 5 🤣

Wow! I quite like that. I regrettably didn't get on with the Short scale, but definitely convinced me of Sires quality/cost ratio. It definitely proves that quality instruments are available at a realistic price. Also as you say I'd rather gig a decent cheaper bass, than my beloved 82 JV jazz or my spectors at the various "colourful establishments" around lancaster and Morecambe 🤣

Bit late with this one, as ive been doing a little light cosmetic Modding. I recently bought this Black 83 SQ Squire Precision from the always fantastic ead. I've owned a white JV jazz for the last 30 years and always wanted a Precision counterpart, but they've gone fairly expensive. These were made at the same time as the JV's but at a lower price point as they weren't vintage reissues, but a standard style P bass for the time (pretty much a 70s style). The quality is on par with my JV it's fairly light for a 40 year old MIJ, it came with a fairly chunky fender style bridge, which looked very shiny compared to the nice mojod tuners. I had a Gotoh Reliced vintage Bridge which I fitted as well as some reliced Barrel knobs. I've also replaced the original black pickguard with what I believe is a Bass Doc burgundy Tort(sourced by our own Walshy), which has been nicely reliced so in keeping with the bass (NOTE- despite being an MIJ bass, I have fitted two USA spec pickguards, so it is a true 70s spec) The neck was also lightly sanded, it felt so nice, I took the neck off my JV jazz and lightly sanded it with wire wool (0000) abdcits lovely and matt now. It had also been upgraded with a CTS Kiagon loom and a fender original 62 pickup, it sounds very warm and smooth, I'm very smitten with this bass😍 it came with some lovely TI flats, which as much as I love I find flats don't cut through live (for me anyway) so I've put a set of fairly new DR Pure Blues, which actually have a very warm abd smooth midrange and sound very nice when worn in. Such a great bass and such high quality for a supposed "budget" instrument, I think they just used much nicer woods I those days.

Beautiful Bass, Anders, I had a Sire U5 short Scale for a wile and I was stunned by how good it was, and ie owned a lot of expensive Basses. One of my next purchases (probably early next year) will be a 5 string V5 jazz, I Need to see if they do that colour with a maple board. I have a Sadowsky Preamp pedal, that is just a fantastic thing, adds clarity and fatness with sounding overly (active) I even use it with my Spectors

Donated! I've been on the end of it and it's sickening.

Ahh you beat me to it 🤣

Always two there are! No more no less Rock covers band- Spector Euro 4 and 5 Funk/jazz fusion band - 80's Squire jazz and precision. Pit gigs, just 1 😁 whichever bass fits the show, but usually a 5 I use a different one for each set, through an EBS A/B/preamp.

Just sold a Yamha custom pickguard to Jeff. Lovely chap to talk too, and super fast payment!! A good un. Thanks Jeff

Just bought a Squire SQ p bass from Alain. As usual he brought it to my door, and we gad a good natter. Fantastic fellow whom I've bought and sold to for years. I've a feeling this bass is a keeper. I also got to sign his Limelight Leyland Sklar P, which is very cool. Thanks Again for everything Alain.

Just bought a Tortoise pickguard from Rob. I visited him recently and he's a lovely/knowledgeable chap with impeccable taste in basses. Deal with confidence. Thanks Rob, hope to see you soon.

I was lucky enough to have a lovely chat with Ash at his home recently, as ive taken possession of one of his old basses. He was kind enough to gift me a lovely P bass pickguard which regrettably didn't fit. I've spoken to Ash on here many times, and he's a longstanding legend of basschat, and a great bloke and player to boot. We're fortunate to have him in our community! Thanks so much Ash 😁

I concur!